tom t

Yes, overexposed. Also, the light here is not all that flattering - it causes nasty shadows over the (fore)heads. You could fix that with some fill flash if you ever need to shoot in light like that.

That said, I do like the actual set-up - reminds me a bit of Breughel: folks eating and drinking and having a good time. Is this a scene in a musical?

Regards,

Tom

Onyo, yes and no on the crop. I agree with you that it's nice to se something less traditional. But in my book, if you go for non-traditional, one should go all the way, not just a little, like is the case here.

Just an opinion of course, feel free to disagree,

Tom

Well seen, good catch for me too!

Me too I see PS work here. I see spurious red pixels (?) and I'm guessing the strange textures are caused by oversharpening? PT?

Great one!

Tom

Being un-subtle?

Good to see you here, Peter!

As for the image - it certainly converges! I like the rusty tones here. Compositionally it is a bit too busy for my taste, and I would try and off-center, so you get a nice diagonal leading line.

Regards,

Tom

Sorry, PT, but for me this one really does not cut it. Theme fit I don't see - it's not because we got some kind of eyes in the shot that I like or see the theme fit.

Photographically the blob top left is distracting and needs cloning out. The shadows, particularly under the chin and ear, are disturbing. The framing of the head is too tight on top and left - I can see a composition where you cut off some top and left but then you need to cut off a lot more.

If I were to do this (which I would not, but heck...) I would try diferrent light. If this is like in a museum where you can't set up your lights I would use some fill flash to ease those harsh shadows. Compositionally I would leave some breathing space above and left - but that's a personal choice.

Sorry for being harsh - perhaps I am missing something obvious here? If so, my apologies. Certainly no harm intended, and thanks for posting anyway. And feel free to disagree!

Regards,

Tom

Theme fit I don't know - don't particularly care here anyhow. I like this image. Choice of B/W and the high contrast works for me here. Compositionally I'm not sure. I'm happy with the DOF, but get the feeling the tilt is not quite 'right' - can't justify that, though.

In all a nice one,

Tom

Ohhh... I would have liked this one very much... if you'd left out the eye. Theme fit good - but would have been just as well without the eye.

Please post the original excl. eye! How did you do this? Is this a PS montage, or some zooming lens effect? Thanks for enlightening us.

Well done (minus eye)

Tom

Ermmm... yes.... Is this a photograph? A photograph of a painting? If the latter then - for me at least - it misses the assignment... But I'm feeling particularly stupid today so it might be just me.

Tom

Not all that convergent in my book.

That said I like it a lot. Very moody. Very wintery.

Suggstions: get the crop to a perfect square. Also get rid of the ugly black border things (is this a scan?). And I would suggest upping the contrast a bit. Things like the tree branches (middle/left) are hadrly visible now - I would either like to really see those, or not see them at all.

In all, very interesting shot, room for improvement (which can be easily done in post-processing) and themefit so-so.

Regards,

TOm

spot on - and one of the reasons I prefer the more radical edit.

Tom

And here's the second one.

Tom

Richard, it's most certainly an evening or morning shot, otherwise the street lights would not end up so bright. I agree with the others on theme fit and such. The building does not bother me, neither does the lack of texture in the sky, but I would like to see more contrast.

I think what happened was that the street lights are the brightest objects in the shot, so if you do like an auto contrast in PS, those prevent other details, like the white line on the walkway to be upped decently. I'm thinking perhaps the light meter in the camera got fooled in a similar way.

I played a bit with contrast and curves in PS and have to admit it's a real difficult image to work with. Mainly because of the street lamps. I could not get the sort of exposure I had in mind but am attaching 2 examples. First one is fairly normal uppped contrast and lighting a bit, without loss of too much detail. Second example I like better, but it's more extreme. I found myself bothered by the building in that one so I cloned it out (quick'n dirty).

Interesting capture, PT.

Regards,

Tom

Well seen PT, but the grass others me tremendously (sorry for that). Also, the stuff on top is a bit distracting. I think this one could easily have been improved by moving one or two steps forward, and tilting the camera down just a tad.

Theme fit is really good though!

Tom

Well done, great angle. Makes me dizzy. This would also do well in the abstract category, as we can hardly make out hte human figures.

Congrats,

Regards,

Tom

Does not work for me, sorry. Feels awkward.

Then again, I did take a closer look at the shot so it certainly draws the eye.

Apart from the missing eyes, what's up with the noise? Was that on purpose?

Regards,

Tom

Very wel seen and done. I like this one best in the series.

Regards,

Tom

Great idea, very interesting and well done. I like the composition too. Nitpicking - perhaps a little more space on top so the slashes are not cut off. Ands the reddish hint top/right I would clone out.

Tom

Great opener for this theme and good theme fit. Well seen and done PT. I'm having trouble figuring out what it is.

If we are going to nitpick (which we are, of course) then I'd say that the highlights between the white lines in the bottom half of the shot are a bit distracting; darken those a bit perhaps?

Cheers,

Tom

• shot is too dark, and there is too little contrast between the kids and the background (trees and fence)
• shot could do with a crop; there is too much empty space on top, imho
• pity we cannot clearly see their faces - I'm sure they were having fun and it would be nice to see that. In this respect too a crop would help.

Regards,

Tom

You need to get a lot closer here. ALso, if you move the camera just a tad you can avoid the vertical line (a pipe?) running through the bird's beak.

Regards,

Tom

Interesting pose, light looks OK. But you have too much empty space around her. I would suggest cropping a lot here.

Regards,

Tom

PT, the colors in the original are wonderful and warm - better to leave PS alone here! With the light you had there I would evn advise agains fill flash, because you might ruin the warm red-brown of the leaf. Different ange should have done it.

Tom

The eyes are beautiful indeed. But compositionally I find it a bit strange that you keep so much empty space to the left when your subject is looking to the right.

Tom

What Chuck said: theme fit ok but too dark, needs fill flash and lots of cropping, or get a lot closer.

I find the dark twig (?) behind/abive the main twig a bit distracting. But I love the blurred background. PT - how did the blue get inthere?

Regards,

Tom

With Knicky here. Good theme fit!

I do find the bright pink (graffiti?) a tad distracting.

Regards,

Tom